Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also acted to decrease the woman 's coping skills , making her more likely to become depressed or a less sensitive parent when faced with social difficulties or a lack of marital support . |
| 2 | They disagreed whether they were obligated by the correct theory of legislation to enforce the most literal or the most sensible reading of the statute in the absence of any reliable evidence about what Congress actually intended . |
| 3 | Every person , whether at the most junior or the most senior level , has someone to whom he or she is accountable for doing the job properly . |
| 4 | Bibliographic citations , adequate for most commonly used bibliographic packages , in either a free or a tightly structured format ; and , |
| 5 | The intensity of the pink plagioclase stain is proportional to the amount of calcium in the molecule : albite/oligoclase will stain lighter than a more calcic plagioclase . |
| 6 | When one considers that relatively few women were accused , and that a large proportion of the population were children , it is clear that a remarkably high number of adult males , around one in five , were brought before the courts each year . |
| 7 | Its widely available policy leaflet now acknowledges that , ‘ it is clear that a very large part of school biology need not involve dissection ’ whilst warning that students intending careers in the subject ( and in associated areas like dentistry , or human or veterinary science ) will be required to dissect at college or university level . |
| 8 | For some groups , for instance , it is clear that a relatively high income , and the style of consumption which accompanies that , can induce a ‘ middle class ’ self-identification despite having a ‘ manual , occupation . |
| 9 | And it must be flexible — defining the kind of flexibility required is difficult , but it is clear that an entirely rigid system is impractical . |
| 10 | It is clear that the most preferred position for the median voter is X* . |
| 11 | It is also clear that the most desirable way forward would actively involve the University Convocation . |
| 12 | By and large , the first three factors can be discounted for the inter-war years and it is clear that the most important factor was the decline in birth rate . |
| 13 | Even at the time that the White Paper was being issued in 1972 , it was becoming clear that the rapidly declining birth rate would have very serious repercussions for the colleges of education ; however , it was not until the decline began to steepen in the mid-1970s that the full implications were publicly announced by the DES . |
| 14 | This may well be true , but it is clear that the somewhat unorthodox background of the Emperor himself was probably a factor . |
| 15 | However , it will certainly be true that it is optimal for a risk-neutral party to take all risk from a risk-averse party ( try A or B bargaining with C ) and it would seem sensible that a more risk-averse party should optimally take on less of the risk than a less risk-averse one . |
| 16 | Settlement had also occurred elsewhere , and the Foreign and Colonial Offices were so badly weakened by alterations and were so inconvenient that an entirely new building would be the only way to provide suitable accommodation . |
| 17 | arbitration is quicker than the highly formalised court process ; |
| 18 | In Britain this trend has been less marked although the more recent appointment of Sir Derek Rayner , the managing director of Marks and Spencer , as the Conservative government 's economic ‘ watchdog ’ , is significant for similar reasons . |
| 19 | It is interesting that a fairly ad-hoc method of transformation ( Test 5 ) is in most respects more successful than division by a prime number . |
| 20 | Despite the much-vaunted claims of Conservative and Labour Members about their faith in competition , it is interesting that a truly radical step to introduce competition into the privatised utilities has yet to come . |
| 21 | It was this and the suspiciously silent room that initiated Jane Holt 's search for a police officer . |
| 22 | The difference between this and the more probabilistic version of determinism is in what it is that is seen as being responsible for the ‘ looseness ’ of the association . |
| 23 | Because of this and the consequently small aisle windows which provide the limited nave lighting , the interior is darker than is usual in churches of the kind . |
| 24 | In other words these derelict monuments to Robert Maxwell 's empire will remain empty until the most profitable use can be found for them . |
| 25 | The process of competition has , to some extent , eroded the differences between the commercial and the publicly funded television services . |
| 26 | We may find the latter is the more elusive and the more central question , which opens out into what it is to like and to love , what it is to be content , and what it is to be happy . |
| 27 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 28 | Depicting a muscular young man , naked and balancing on his left leg , it is thought to be more than 370 years old and the most significant example of Renaissance sculpture to come up for auction . |
| 29 | Orphism appealed particularly to the Germans , since like so much of their own painting it was brightly coloured and was simultaneously a more theoretical and a more popular type of art than Cubism . |
| 30 | ‘ Frenchman 's Creek ’ is a much shorter and a more simple book , written by a well known authoress this century . |